The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson - Hardcover

Dudgeon, Piers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708990398 ISBN 13: 9780708990391

Publisher: Charnwood (Large Print), 1998

Synopsis

Born to an impoverished young Tyneside woman in 1906, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At the age of 27, she was able to buy a house of her owna hopeful sign thatthe escape from her past was complete. In fact, her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, she was brought to the brink of suicide and forced to confront the tragedies of her life. The author has known Catherine Cookson for many years and was given full cooperation on this biography by the novelist and her husband Tom, who provided many of the photographs for the book. Originally published in 1997, it tells the story of her long and eventful life through the heroines in her books."

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About the Author

PIERS DUDGEON is a writer, editor, and photographer. He worked for ten years as a publisher in London and then started his own company, Pilot Productions. He is the author of bestselling biographies of Catherine Cookson, Edward de Bono, the composer Sir John Tavener, and the novelists Barbara Taylor Bradford, Josephine Cox, J. M. Barrie and Daphne du Maurier.

Synopsis

Piers Dudgeon tells the story of Catherine C ookson''s long and eventful life through the characters in he r books, all of whom reflect in some way facets of her own p ersonality. '

About this edition

• Publisher: Charnwood (Large Print)
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0708990398
• ISBN 13: 9780708990391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318